FROM AT-RISK YOUTH
TO HEALING ARTS PROFESSIONAL
My life-long study of Tai Ji Quan, began right after I had barely graduated from high school with a “C” grade average. I was never interested in school, but was more sports minded as a teenager.
TO HEALING ARTS PROFESSIONAL
One day as I walked around my neighborhood in Atwater, California, I noticed a small store front with a large TaiJi/YinYang symbol hanging over the front door. I felt I needed to get back in physical shape, and thinking it was a martial arts school, I walked in and enquired about taking classes there.
What I had found was Sifu Michael’s Pacific Light and Power School of Internal Martial Arts. What I had really found was a life changing opportunity waiting to be developed.
In just one month of doing early morning TaiJi at the studio, I began to change not only physically, but more noticeably, I began to change mentally. Practicing TaiJi helped to strengthen my tendency towards being college bound. Soon after I enrolled in the local junior college and continued to train Taiji with Sifu Michael. Later I was accepted into UCLA and graduated with a BA degree in Chinese Language and Literature.
Training Michael's TaiJi allowed me to go from academic apathy to fluency in Mandarin Chinese, and now into professional certification as a licensed Accupuncturist and Herbologist.
I will forever be grateful to Sifu Michael for showing me a different way of breathing, and a different way of being.